Louise DeSalvo has succeeded in furrowing new paths for the Italian-American woman writer who, through oppressive, historical restrictions, has remained silent much too long.

What about Jazz ? Louis Prima? The Neapolitan Song? Joseph Sciorra’s thoughts: “4 million people left Italy and migrated to the United States between 1880s and 1924 and another 665,000 from 1945 to present, and you could not find or invite one performer working in a host of genres (e.g.,...

In this case, Anthony Tamburri discusses the Calandra Institute’s stated policy of neutrality and how the Institute’s neutral position was mis-represented by the phrase, “Calandra is not supporting Columbus,” and nothing more. Hence the politics of omission!

Since Charlottesville, there has been an inordinate amount of talking heads debating the issue. Indeed I have been especially intrigued by those who continue to support Trump and his comments, many of them engaging in all sorts of rhetorical somersaults in order not to condemn explicitly neither the violence of...

Di italo-americani ne è pieno il mondo, ma la figura di Anthony Scaramucci (responsabile della comunicazione per la Casa Bianca per 10 giorni) non ne ha ripercorso le caratteristiche migliori. Lo ricorderemo per la sua conversazione telefonica con Ryan Lizza dove è sembrato uno di quei bizzarri, volgari, maleducati “wannabe"

In his phone conversation with Ryan Lizza, Anthony Scaramucci didn't sound like an Italian-American like Leon Panetta, but much more one of those boorish, vulgar-mouth uneducated wannabes who pepper their language with f-bombs and c-bombs. In this context, a popular culture reference comes to mind, Simon and Garfunkel’s iconic “Mrs....

In "Let's Wake Up, Italics!" Bassetti rinuncia alla dicotomia di italiani "puri" nei confronti dei discendenti degli italiani e dei popoli "che non avrebbero nemmeno una goccia di sangue italiano nelle loro vene, ma nonostante ciò abbracciarono i valori e lo stile di vita del nostro Paese"

The reader of "Let’s Wake Up, Italics!" will realize that Piero Bassetti flattens our hierarchies. He clearly renounces the oft-held dichotomy of “pure” Italians vis-à-vis descendants of Italians and people “who might not have a drop of Italian blood in their veins, but have nonetheless embraced values, lifestyle, and shared...

Nel 1942 Maria Grazia Antonia Cerulli, con circa altri 695 mila cittadini italiani residenti negli Stati Uniti, fu identificata come "nemica straniera". Così come tutti gli italiani erano considerati violenti e mafiosi, ora sembrerebbe che tutti i mussulmani siano dei potenziali jihadisti

In 1942 Maria Grazia Antonia Cerulli, along with approximately 695,000 other Italians citizens residing in the United States, was designated an “enemy alien”. As all Italians were seen as violent and Mafiosi, now all Muslims are potential jihadists and hence need to be kept out of the USA. Martin Niemöller’s...